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this may sound a little trivial but… perhaps a poll around alterhumans in science? how many of us are in or pursuing science-based careers?

are you in or pursuing a science-based career ?

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I will probably have more on this later but I think there is something to be said for the way depictions of anthropomorphized archetypical versions of animals in therian and otherkin spaces perpetuates misinformation. The dog as an icon of loyalty, the deer as a symbol of innocence, etc. The actual animal is obscured under artificial meaning-making until they become a consumable facsimile. Dogs buy this, deer buy that. Here’s a picture of an animal in distress captioned “meeeee :3”

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whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight

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I've been stepping away from the Alterhuman community and it's making me think that 80% of the distress people may feel over understanding their identity goes away if you stop just spiraling over it by constantly questioning every why and how.

Honestly I think it's a thing I miss from old blogs where a lot of what was shared was mostly active experiences, aka, idk "I have a prey drive. I went on a mountain retreat with friends and processed rabbits we caught. This was a deeply spiritual experience and gratifying to my carnivore instincts" instead of "I confirmed marten because otter was 9% wrong on Vibes and I think my DNA is not human because I feel bad in my body. Here are 12 words I coined for my very specific precise experience of it." or other things that are more... Describing oneself without ever stepping outside of your own identity to actually experience things.

Maybe this makes no sense. I just think a lot of what the Tumblr nonhuman community amounts to rn is kinda paradoxical and ridiculous, especially with therians, because it's just a bunch of over thinking and no acting. Like no wonder you feel dysphoric about being an animal you've spent the last fucking 10h spiraling in your own head about deeply human concepts watching a deeply human screen. Tear apart a pomegranate with your teeth you'll feel better. Jesus. Put some enrichment in that beast.

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cyberpunk doesn’t have enough alterhumans in it in my experience. they gotta get on that. swap some brains around into other bodies or use a wireless connection to control another body like a puppet or something

you go to buy guns and the street rat arms dealer you’re meeting with is… a german shepherd. hmm. interesting. well, her brain is human, and her body is a synthetic lab-grown one she got put into, complete with titanium teeth. except for some minor computer interfacing electrodes, she looks just like the real thing. it’s freaky.

that rat perched on your contact’s shoulder is the real contact. she just hired someone to work as a decoy because she’s in danger - and when the decoy gets sniped from a tower across the street, she scurries off into a sewer, completely unharmed.

birds aren’t government drones. don’t be ridiculous. birds are government spies.

your target for this hit isn’t even an animal. she just got more arms for the fun of it. she wanted to look like this and this way she can use 6 knives at once

the underground fight club you go to ramps up the drama by putting fighters into weaponized biomechanical bodies grown in-house. you’re watching a grizzly bear with steel wool fur rip apart a massive bipedal bull with saws for horns. unregulated combat sports are fuckin wild in this district

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Had a truesona before I knew it was a thing. I still called it fursona otfen. I thought all furries just make fursonas based on how they perceive themselves ^^"

if youre an otherkin/etc, do you have a truesona (accurately represents how you look) as well as a fursona (less accurate) ?

sorry if this is phrased poorly . uh. example ?? i have my truesona (how youve seen me draw myself) as well as a fursona (a silly green alien guy) !!! :3

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Read "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" for the first time and got a funny little flickershift as a sentient rat.

I kinda missed those. I remember getting slugcat flickers from Rain World and dragon flickers from that one Minecraft mod. This one was a lot more faint but very fun, especially the long huge tail that I'm very much not accustomed to.

I like their silly names too. I think my name would be Wholegrain :D

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Hi! Here's a lil list of piscivores. Non-exhaustive, but I hope it'll help.

Latin names here are not to flex, but for ease of search for information in your native language, if it's something other than english.

Not listing cetaceans because they are strictly aquatic.

Those who eat a LOT of fish, staple of the diet:

Otters (lutrinae) - I won't list all species, but please look into them. Most are freshwater, but Sea otter (Enhydra lutris, also the biggest of them) and Marine otter (Lontra felina) live in marine habitats. Mostly social, living in small groups.

American mink (Neogale vison) - its native range is North America, but it was introduced to Patagonia, Chile, Europe, former USSR countries and even China. Prefer rocky river coasts but will live almost aniwhere near rivers, even in urban areas. Also eat a lot of stuff other than fish, but fish is the staple. Solitary.

European mink (Mustela lutreola) - almost extinct and only left in some parts of Europe, driven out of its native range by the American mink. Also eat a lot of voles. Has cute white marks on its lips. Solitary.

Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) - not to be confused with the fisher (Pekania pennanti), which is a mustelid that rarely ever eats fish! Living in South and Southeast Asia, medium-sized and nocturnal. Solitary.

Flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) - living in swamps of Sumatra, Borneo islands and on the Malay peninsula. Smaller and has less pronounced spots (only visible on paws and face). Solitary.

Coastal wolves (Canis lupus crassodon) - mainly just a wolf that hunts fish and crustaceans. Their habitat ranges from southern Alaska, down along the coast of British Columbia

Eared seals (otariidae) and Earless seals (phocidae) - sorry I'm not gonna list all of their species, but afaik all of them eat mostly fish. You might want to look into the baikal seals (Pusa sibirica) if you feel you are a freshwater animal.

Greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus) - uses echolocation to fish! Will also eat insects. Their colonies live primarily in tropical lowlands of South and Central America.

Fish-eating bat (Myotis vivesi) - lives in california gulf. Feeds on marine fish and crustaceans. Lives in large colonies.

Otter shrews (Potamogalidae) - small African mammals, preying on any aquatic animal they can find with their sensitive whiskers. Neither shrews not otters. Solitary and nocturnal.

Those who eat fish occasionally, and can survive on other stuff without it:

Swamp moongoose (Atilax paludinosus) - a moongoose. Living in subsaharan Africa. Mostly eat rodents, amphibians, crustaceans, but also eat fish if they can. Also fruits, berries, seeds, they're omnivorous. Solitary.

Crab-eating moongoose (Urva urva) - lighter, has longer fur and overall different body shape from the previous one. Lives in East and Southeast Asia. Despite the name, loves a lot of things other than crabs, including fish! Assumed to be social, living in groups up to four animals.

Short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) - a unique South American canid species. Quite small (females larger than males), with dark velvet fur, webbed paws and bushy tail. Eats a lot of stuff other than fish. Considered solitary.

Common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) - lives both in Europe (invasive) and in Japan (also in Eastern Russia), which is its native habitat. Omnivores that can eat almost everything. The only canid known to hibernate. Also climbs trees well! They live in pairs and are monogamous. There's also Japanese raccoon dog, might want to look into it.

American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) - North American species. Mostly black, but the color may vary, some individuals have a white marking on their chest. Tend to be a bit smaller than brown bears. Will eat literally anything.

Brown bear (Ursus arctos) - they live in North America, Europe, northern and central Asia. You know about the guys.

Crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) - and all other raccoons occasionally eat fish. Crab-eating raccoon lives in Central and South America. Solitary and nocturnal.

does anyone have any examples of non aquatic (maybe semi aquatic?) mainly fish eating mammals?

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remember this post from a little while ago?

well, i made a zine about it!

hope you enjoy, im genuinely very proud of it :} (tumblr ate the quality but oh well)

under the cut is the same thing but you can see the pages and stuff (and my beautiful beautiful thumb lol)

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I've mentioned an idea in my previous reblog, please correct me if I'm being unreasonable or inconsiderate : maybe creating a "safe space" tag for the "triggered-by-descriptions-of-alternative-realities" part of the community could help?

I don't know if it should be put on each post made by an individual, or just onto an intro post to indicate that the page is safe for them.

my only piece on the recent nonhuman discourse is i think that truly stuff like tagging and censoring certain things only really tenable in small groups like a discord server of friends. while i do think things should generally be properly tagged online, conflicting needs can make this an incredibly difficult thing. what causes one person distress is liberatory for another, and sometimes there are indeed cases where that liberation is going to cause distress for others who see it.

I hate loud abrupt vocal noises, can't stand it, ruins my day. A lot of other autistic people make loud abrupt vocal noises and either can't help it, or need to in order to self-regulate. i cant really do anything in that situation but wear headphones or take myself out of situations where im around them. it would be more reasonable for me to ask for something more if we were, for whatever reason, required to be around each other. or if the people in proximity to me refused to ever be around me without that person. but that is just not the case in public spaces like the internet

I do completely understand there being a need for spaces that aren't going to have stuff like that out of nowhere, but on the public net, in shared communities, theres unfortunately not a lot to do about it. i think that both people triggered by physical experiences and people who have physical experiences should be welcome, but that is going to be far harder to come to consensus about as a community when it comes to the comfort of both parties than its going to be in a much smaller group

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Hmm. what about the opposite?

What if the folks who DO need a strong reality/unreality border created a tag for them? (like. for us. I am them)

Something along the lines of "safe for X" or as Hemlock said, any gibberish tag to put into posts, that would indicate that the content is not unreality triggering.

It certainly is an unusual way to apply tags, but maybe that would be more comfortable for both sides.

A word on the topic of physical nonhumanity and unreality :

I am not sure if this could be a trend that could actually be set in the community, but as a psychotic nonhuman, i am starting to find it extremely hard to navigate the tags, seemingly no matter who i block, what tags i block, etc. Either i am faced with walls of blocked tags, because people tag for reach even when the subject is not directly physical nonhumanity (because they are a physical nonhuman, for exemple), and am locked away from a good 50% of the therian and alt-h tags, or i randomly see stuff that are psychotic triggers of mine. Sometimes both if someone got a little creative with how they tagged their physical stuff.

It would be nice if people could figure a tag to put specifically on posts discussing physical experiences (to give an idea, in my case, the things that affect me most are detailed descriptions of transformations, and assertions of a Truth, such as "no matter what anyone says, i physically have the dna of a dog"), so that this tag could be blocked, to avoid very direct psychosis triggers without needing to completely block away all posts that are cross posted as physical nonhumanity just because the person is a physical nonhuman, or at least so people can block out those without needing to block 12 different tags that all refer to physical nonhumanity.

It used to be tagging unreality, then people started calling that reality checking. And like, sure. I can understand how it would be uncomfortable if that's currently your reality. But like can we please figure out some word that isn't uncomfortable to y'all that you can agree on for trigger warning ?

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A word on the topic of physical nonhumanity and unreality :

I am not sure if this could be a trend that could actually be set in the community, but as a psychotic nonhuman, i am starting to find it extremely hard to navigate the tags, seemingly no matter who i block, what tags i block, etc. Either i am faced with walls of blocked tags, because people tag for reach even when the subject is not directly physical nonhumanity (because they are a physical nonhuman, for exemple), and am locked away from a good 50% of the therian and alt-h tags, or i randomly see stuff that are psychotic triggers of mine. Sometimes both if someone got a little creative with how they tagged their physical stuff.

It would be nice if people could figure a tag to put specifically on posts discussing physical experiences (to give an idea, in my case, the things that affect me most are detailed descriptions of transformations, and assertions of a Truth, such as "no matter what anyone says, i physically have the dna of a dog"), so that this tag could be blocked, to avoid very direct psychosis triggers without needing to completely block away all posts that are cross posted as physical nonhumanity just because the person is a physical nonhuman, or at least so people can block out those without needing to block 12 different tags that all refer to physical nonhumanity.

It used to be tagging unreality, then people started calling that reality checking. And like, sure. I can understand how it would be uncomfortable if that's currently your reality. But like can we please figure out some word that isn't uncomfortable to y'all that you can agree on for trigger warning ?

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I think you could enjoy the Dragon Survival minecraft mod! Or its official mod pack Play As Dragon

The latest versions have a lot of dragon types, including bipedal like raptors, sea amphipteres, sea dragon, and the customization is perfect! If I remember correctly, you can even upload a custom skin for yourself, but if you're not that fancy, the built-in features are very diverse and allow for almost any kind of dragon you can imagine.

The gameplay details are also customizable, whether you want the flight to use hunger orn ot, whether you'd like to encounter dragon hunters, whether you'd like to eat special dragon food, etc

I genuinely cannot play Minecraft without it anymore and highly recommend this mod for all dragons and dragon enthusiasts

With all the other mods Minecraft has, you can make your own perfect dragon survival game

Thinking about survival dragon games. Like draconia is fiiiiiine but it's stagnating and i'm expecting it to become yet another dragon themed chat room.

I think what i really want in a dragon survival multiplayer game would be monster hunter : now you're the dragon. It's probably... too much to ask of indie game devs, honestly, but the idea of a game where you have the kind of attacks the beasts in monster hunter do, with the same kind of timings as how you play the hunter in the game, would feel GREAT when throwing down w/ another player in another beast. Just turf wars but both monsters are players. Hunting involves also using ur skills to defeat the smaller monsters to eat, be it by being undetected until you're sure to get it in one go, through traps, or whatever else.

I remember i had so many dreams for a monster hunter game where you play the monster as a kid. god i wish that existed i prolly would not exist outside of the game for months.

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I swear we've seen a poll like this before (maybe we've even made one before) but I'm making it again now anyway! We've been seeing not much rep for human-identifying alterhumans so we wanted to throw out a little poll to see how many are out there.

No orthohuman/non-alterhuman option to not skew the results.

Also, "fully nonhuman" means whatever you'd define it as--it can include physical nonhuman identity, or it can include simply fully identifying as a nonhuman in a human body. Up to you!

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LYSSANTHROPE - LYSSANTHROPE

I wanted to design a fake cover for an album that looks like it might be up my alley, and got a bit carried away.

The Idea: loosely rabies themed, LYSSANTHROPE is an ambitious attempt to depict mental and physical deterioration to its ineluctable end. Wildly variable in both volume and complexity, nonlinear in its loss of lucidity. Fascinated with beauty which is inextricable from the revolting, fascinated with power transmuted into pain. Runs hot and cold. Doesn’t know what’s going on. Wants a bite. Needs a drink.

Some assertions about this nonexistent album:

I was listening to experimental music from the early 80s when I drew this, but in my heart of hearts I know it came out in 2011.

Not well known, but mentioned semi-regularly by people who like the sort of thing that it is.

NOT radio friendly except for like one song that sounds like nothing else on the album.

“Angina Dentata” despite having the stupidest name, is a standout track and an actual banger.

Good, but probably not a masterpiece. Somewhat bloated and inconsistent despite itself.

Very Curious what genre people would assume this is. There are no right answers, but there are wrong ones.

Big thanks to @quinnred for formatting the title and track list!

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‎‎‧₊˚✧[Borzoi Therian]✧˚₊‧

A flag for people those theriotype is a Borzoi and also be used for who's gender is related to borzois in some way

- Anyone can use

I strongly believe xenogenders are for everyone even a cishet neurotypical white man with a white picket fence and three kids

~ requested by friend on discord